The Lucky Country: Australia In The Sixties
by Donald Horne
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Penguin Books, Australia, 1965. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Penguin AU12. Australia is a lucky country, run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck.' The phrase 'the lucky country' has become part of our lexicon; it's forever being invoked in debates about the Australian way of life, but is all too often misused by those blind to Horne's irony. When it was first published in 1964 The Lucky Country caused a sensation. Horne took Australian society to task for its philistinism, provincialism and dependence. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled to its past. Although it's a study of the confident Australia of the 1960s, the book still remains illuminating and insightful decades later. The Lucky Country is valuable not only as a source of continuing truths and revealing snapshots of the past, but above all as a key to understanding the anxieties and discontents of Australian society today. 258 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Sociology; Sociology & Culture; Australian. Inventory No: 267841..
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- 267841
- Title
- The Lucky Country: Australia In The Sixties
- Author
- Donald Horne
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 1965
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- BZDB43 Sociology; Sociology & Culture; Australian. Unbranded Donald Horne The Lucky Country: Australia In The Sixties
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- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.